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Abstract
The present dissertation analyzes some of morphophonemics of English and Arabic, highlighting the phonological structure of morphemes. It has focused on the phonemic variation which morphemes undergo in combination with one another (e.g. hoof → hooves). Moreover, it has underlined morphophonemic alternations such as electric → electricity, malice → malicious, etc. The dissertation has employed some definitions morphophonemics particularly that of Crystal with the morphophoneme as the basic unit recognized in a morphophonemic level of analysis . David Crystal ( born 6 July 1941 ) is British famous linguistic, works as an academic and author, eminent in the field of Internet Linguistic. He edited over 120 books on different topics such as the Cambridge Encyclopedia of language ( 1887, 1997, 2010 ). He wrote as (an editor ) the Cambridge Fact Finder, the new Penguin Encyclipedia. In addition, he has published a lot of books relating to linguistic and the English Language. He has also written plays and poetry.. It has targeted the morphological rules according to which morphemes combine and influence each other’s sound structure, resulting in different variant pronunciations for the same morpheme It has also given the important operational definitions that steer the wheel of work throughout. It has conducted a morphophonemic analysis of English and Arabic by accounting for the variants which are called “allophones” i.e., variants of the same sound as well as the way they are represented orthographically via highlighting them as “allomorphs”. This is the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes The dissertation introduces the beginning of morphophonemics (or morphonology) as a concept in America and Europe in the late 19th century. It also highlights the early American recognition of alternations and morphophonemics, including the work of Bloomfield. The simultaneous interest in morphology in Europe, Russia and Britain is also dealt with. Moreover, American descriptivists after Bloomfield (Joos, Trager, Swadesh, Hockett, Bloch, and Harris) are also studied. The dissertation has defined morphophonemic and supplied a summary of early generative phonology, the various problems of phonology/morphology interface, and standard generative phonology as introduced in Chomsky and Halles’s The Sound Pattern of English. Its chief focus has been the sound changes that take place in morphemes when they combine to form words. It has targeted the morph phonological rules according to which morphemes combine and influence each other’s sound structure, resulting in different variant pronunciations for the same morpheme. The dissertation has given diverse alternations in English and in Arabic, e.g., the plural morpheme, written as ”-s” or ”-es” the pronunciation of which alternates between [s], [z], and [ɪz], as in tapes, pads, and wishes respectively. The past tense marker (e)d is similarly dealt with